Pashcimaka, Paścimaka: 1 definition

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The Sanskrit term Paścimaka can be transliterated into English as Pascimaka or Pashcimaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Pashchimaka.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Paścimaka (पश्चिमक) or Pacchimaka.—q.v.

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Paścimaka (पश्चिमक) or Pacchimaka.—f. °ikā, adj. (= Pali pacchi°; to Sanskrit paścima, -ka svārthe), (1) last, latest, later, subse- quent: paścimake samucchraye Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 68.7 (verse), in his last body (incarnation); paści° Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 27.14 (verse); pacchi°, v.l. paści° Mahāvastu iii.232.15 (verse); the rest in prose; paści° Mahāvastu i.348.10; ii.273.5, 10; (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 51.13; Bodhisattvabhūmi 283.8; 356.7; paścimikāyāṃ Vajracchedikā Hoernle [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 187.8 (ed. Vajracchedikā 35.4 °māyāṃ); (tac ca) paścimakaṃ dāridryam Karmavibhaṅga (and Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa) 67.3, and that was his last poverty (i.e. he was never poor again); (etāvan me samucchrayasya) °makaṃ parinirvāṇaṃ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 43.13, perhaps this (lit. so far) is the final complete nirvāṇa of my body, or there is final etc. (? Tibetan ṅaḥi lus ḥdi tham mya ṅan las ḥdaḥ ba ḥo); (2) western: (mahāpṛthivī…purastimaṃ, v.l. °mena) unnamati paścimakaṃ (one ms. °mako, v.l. pacchimako; Senart em.) onamati Mahāvastu iii.256.8, in the west.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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